Help from people who use bumper pull trailers
Hello, I have a 5th wheel RV and do okay towing and backing that but I need an enclosed cargo trailer for a small business I am thinking of opening up. The trailers I am looking at are either 6 ...
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CavemanCharlie wrote:
In MN brakes are not required on anything that weighs less then 2900 pounds. I don't believe that a trailer licensed here would be ticketed in another state because of a difference in laws. I will admit that I am not 100 percent sure of that though.
It's an interesting problem. If something is legal in your home state, but not in another state you are traveling through, whose laws apply?
Take double towing - say you are pulling a boat trailer behind your fifth wheel. This is legal in a lot of states but not all of them. Not legal in PA, NY, NJ, or MA for example. So if your tow vehicle, fifth wheel and boat trailer all have TX plates, where it's legal, think that's going to save you from a ticket from a PA or NY cop?
I don't think so, but then, I'm not a lawyer and I haven't tried to research it in law books. I wouldn't even know how, really.
And I suspect that the people who claim it's perfectly fine aren't lawyers and haven't researched it in law books, either.
